We will meet weekly for two hours each time. If you cannot meet, you should either make arrangements to borrow the robot to complete the programming assignments or come at a different time.

Not everything can be done in the meetings. This page will hopefully help guide you on things you can do at home to help prepare for meetings. Homework questions will be presented, but feel free to find whatever information interests you about the current topic. The questions are a base to look for if you need guidance, but do not feel limited by them or obligated to answer all questions. Basically, go forth and learn! Take enough notes to be able to share your learning with the team.

For research done at home, keep track of where you got the information that you used. There is a notes page that you could use in the files section.

!!For The week of 9/7-9/14!!

1.Research on how the melting of the Polar Ice caps effect our comunities,another comunity, and the world. Bring it in to the meeting or post it in Research age and write who it is by, remember to cite your sources!

2.Everyone should view www.firstlegoleague.org .See all the mission videos and Project info!

3. practice Do things such as turning of your car when not in use, recycling, etc, to help the environment and stop global warming!

Programming:

One

• Watch NXT Introduction (8 min), Editor Introduction (18 min), Move Blocks (10 mins)on http://www.ortop.org/NXT_Tutorial/html/essentials.html
• Write a program to go forward 2 seconds, turn left 180 degrees, forward 1 second, turn right 180 degrees, full speed forward 1 second. Upload it to Pgm_Move_initials and think about where you will end up. If you cannot write the actual program, write down the logic to be able to quickly enter the program at the meeting.

Two

• Watch Loops (3 minutes), Loop Exercise - do loop exercise and upload to Pgm_Loops_initials
• Watch Waits (3 minutes) - write a program which will go forward until it hits something, then back up, turn a bit, and go foward again in a loop. Upload to Pgm_Wait_initials or take notes on your logic to bring in.
• Watch Light Sensor (6 min), Light Sensor Exercise (1 min), be ready to calibrate robot and explain calibration, write a program to do the light sensor exercise. Upload to Pgm_Light_initials or take notes on your logic to bring in.

Three

• Watch Viewing Sensors (8 min), on http://www.ortop.org/NXT_Tutorial/html/essentials.html
• Write the light viewer program. Upload it to Pgm_LightViewer_initials or write notes.
• Watch Switches (5 min) and Switch Exercise (2 min) on http://www.ortop.org/NXT_Tutorial/html/essentials.html
• Do Switch Exercise and upload to Pgm_Switch_initials or write notes.
• Be ready for programming challenges at the meeting!

Four

I need to look at it still. Carry on with tutorials!